Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
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Author: William Navidi Prof.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3.4, Problem 17E
Refer to Exercise 16. In an experiment to determine the value of k, the temperature T at time t = 10 min is measured to be T = 54.1 ± 0.2°F. Assume that T0 = 70.1 ± 0.2°F and Ta = 35.7 ± 0.1 °F. Estimate k, and find the uncertainty in the estimate.
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